Lyonel Feininger, 1919
Cathedral

Feininger’s cubist woodcut, 'Cathedral', was made in 1919 for the cover of Walter Gropius’s manifesto and programme for the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar. Here, Gropius and Feininger referred to the 'miracle of the Gothic cathedral' as a Synthesis of the art. The name 'Bauhaus' subsequently evolved as an allusion to the medieval masons’ guilds.